hackaday.com - 12/3/2008
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A month ago, we reported that Nintendo’s new DSi portable didn’t work with any of the current crop of flash cartridges. Things didn’t look good for homebrew. Here we are a month later and looking at the release of the Acekard 2i . It’s the first DSi compatible flash ...
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Acekard 2i flash-cart for Nintendo DSi
SlashGear —
... in how they use their handhelds and legitimately-obtained games. The Acekard 2i can be used to store game save-files directly to a microSD card, removing memory capacity as an issue limiting save points, as well as running backups.
It will also let you use Action Replay cheat codes, if you’re not as impressive in a particular title as you’d like to be. The DSi is not yet available outside of Japan.
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Acekard 2i flash cart brings homebrew to the Nintendo DSi
Obsessable News Feed —
... [CrunchGear] Nintendo DSi gets its first flash cart [Hack a Day] ...
Aekard 2i: Nintendo DSi now has a working ‘homebrew’ cart
CrunchGear —
... of files—games and music and the like—over to a MicroSD card, then you put the MicroSD card in the Aekard. Turn your DSi on and off you go. (I had one of these types of cards for the GBA, worked well enough, I suppose.)
Of course, the official reason these types of cards exist is to support homebrew. We all know that’s a codeword, though.
The original Aekard DS runs for around $40, but prices vary wildy. Might want to shop around, then.
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